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In the fall of 2016, Co-Director and cinematographer Trevor Wallace travelled with Gino Caspari to far Western China to begin their search for Scythian tombs. They located over 100 graves in the militarized border zones near Russia and Kazakhstan. They followed the trail of stolen grave goods, escaped the military border guards, and spent time in traditional Kazakh villages wrestling and riding horses.

In the summer of 2017 Gino received his PhD and lead his first expedition to Siberia resuming their search for an intact Scythian tomb. He assembled a team of archaeologists from the Hermitage Museum and the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia. Here is the team with Explorers Club Flag #134. [Top to Bottom-Left to Right] Trevor Wallace (expedition filmmaker) Dr. Gino Caspari (expedition leader) Anatolie Luboshnikov (driver) Valeria Makarova (volunteering archaeologist) Maxim Eltsov (soil scientist) Timur Sadykov (Russian expedition leader, license holder) Jegor Blochin (technical lead) Katarzyna Langenegger (volunteering archaeologist) Jegor Mazurkievich (cook) Not pictured: Kezhik Mongush (student)

Gino Caspari is a Swiss archaeologist and explorer. The Fulbright alumnus and Columbia University graduate focuses on the discovery and analysis of millenia-old graves and ruins. Years of fieldwork, rigid academic training and a sense for adventure have led him to work in some of the wilder places on this planet. https://www.facebook.com/gino.caspari/(Photo credit: M. Jendryke)

Trevor Wallace is an explorer, artist, and filmmaker focusing on documenting stories of the human spirit, present and past. He specializes in collaborating with remote communities and documenting expeditions in harsh environments. His films have been shown at the Polar Film Festival, the Museum of Natural History, Cannes Short Film Corner, and the World Water Forum. (Photo Credit: Antonella Wilby)